Posts Tagged ‘teacher’
Video greetings from South Korea
I had a pleasure to spend a week in South Korea. I attended a seminar with 300 participants and held training sessions about Finnish education system, playful learning and early childhood education for educationalists in South Korea. We were also invited to local schools to work with teachers from primary schools till high school. Interesting…
Read MoreGreetings from Vietnam educational roadshow
Busy training days, hot and humid weather, super delicious food and happy people! During their stay in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, experts sent by Learning Scoop Elina Harju and Jukka Miettunen have held training session on various themes such as Activating teaching methods, Differentiation of content based teaching vs competency based. Participants have…
Read MoreChina experiences – smiling university educators, peach trees, chicken soup and shining sun
Ni Hau! Between May and June I had a wonderful possibility to deliver two times one-week teacher training program in China with my colleague, Mrs Tiina Koskiranta from Tampere University of Applied Science. First week we had a group of 40 teachers from Railway Polytechnics from city of Guangzhow, Canton. The group was really innovative…
Read MoreTop leaders, top results – Principal Academy Finland
Finnish schools are not among the best in the World by chance. They are also led and managed exceptionally well. It is the principals and headmasters who lay the foundation for equality and trust in Finnish schools. It is they who make sure that teachers and students can perform at their best and achieve outstanding…
Read MoreLearning from Finnish education: What, How and Why?
We get inquiries concerning Finnish education every day. People from all over the world are curious to learn, what is Finland doing differently in education and why are we getting so excellent results. This is all very nice and flattering. We are happy to share our ideas and experiences. The problem is, how these ideas…
Read MoreFinland’s Core Curriculum: Skills or Knowledge? Or Both?
Last week I was training international education experts from USA, Saudi Arabia, India, New Zealand etc. about Finland’s new core curriculum. In the beginning of the training I asked them: “How many of you have heard that Finland is getting rid of school subjects in the new national curriculum?” Many participants raised their hands. There…
Read MoreIt all begins in the early childhood…
The interest towards Finnish early childhood education has increased significantly during the last year. Why is that? For one thing, foreign education experts have realized that the early childhood education is an integral part of the success story of Finnish education. For the other, there is a lot of interesting development going on in the…
Read MoreIt has to be Utopia…
When me and my colleague Elina were interviewed by Sunday Times of Malta – believe me, that isn’t the most typical work assignment for us… 😉 the interviewer told us that she had heard comments from the participants of our workshop saying “The Finnish Education sounds so good, it has to be Utopia…”. Same kind of feedback…
Read MoreIdeas born in international winds
This year I have been privileged in many occasions to talk with people from many different countries. First at Lapland International Forum for Education (LIFE2017) in Rovaniemi, where we also had a workshop on Pedagogical Leadership – Empowering School Community. Last few days I have had pleasure to be part of Symposium of Turkish Private…
Read MoreGive back this Christmas!
Education gives children information and skills and improves the income of families. An educated child is likely as an adult to ensure that their own children receive an education. In our work, we improve day care centres, schools, teaching material and the quality of teaching and early childhood education. We help the most vulnerable access…
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